UN Peacekeeping
The United States withdrew its military personnel from the United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan a day after Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s announcement revoking all visas held by citizens of the small, landlocked African country. “The United States …
- Damilola Banjo
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The United States is clear that it will not support the United Nations’ proposed funding model for the African Union security force in Somalia, placing a large question mark over the international mission to contain the jihadist Al Shabab group. …
- Anton Ferreira
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo is asking the United Nations Security Council to impose sanctions on the Rwandan government for its noncompliance with the Council’s resolution demanding a ceasefire in Congo. The country’s envoy to the UN, Zénon Mukongo …
- Damilola Banjo
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Denmark will lead its United Nations Security Council rotating presidency by focusing on peace as tensions mount over negotiations in the Russia-Ukraine war and as the fragile ceasefire agreement in Gaza faces possible collapse. Denmark’s Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen …
- Damilola Banjo
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The Security Council has extended the United Nations-African Union operation fighting the Al Shabab jihadists in Somalia by five years, but uncertainties and imponderables abound — including the new funding shocks ushered in by President Donald Trump in January. The …
- Anton Ferreira
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Agnès was one of the 120,000 people who became homeless after the 2002 Nyiragongo volcano eruption in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The eruption swallowed 15 percent of the city and killed more than 100 people. “I lost …
- Damilola Banjo
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- PassBlue
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United Nations peacekeeping faces an uncertain future. Widely seen as a cornerstone of the UN’s contribution in world affairs, in recent years it has been marred by scandal, hostility in countries where missions are deployed and declining appetite for it …
- Dali ten Hove
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An intensifying dispute between Somalia and Ethiopia over Addis Ababa’s proposed recognition of a breakaway Somali state and uncertainty about the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia are creating an opening for the jihadist group Al Shabaab, which regional analysts …
- Anton Ferreira
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This Week @UN: Security Council reform; peacekeepers in Haiti?; abducted survivors from Boko Haram. Plus: Starving in Gaza; Israeli denials; polio vaccines paused; BRICS summit; UNRWA driver killed. See our original video clips this week on Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram …
- Arthur Bassas
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Haiti, a half-island in the Caribbean, has been plagued for eons with natural disasters and historical interventions, first by France, then by the United States. In this century, another crippling earthquake, the assassination of a president and poor living conditions …
- Evelyn Leopold
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There is a history of the top United Nations diplomat, the secretary-general, visiting Israel. Such visits are de rigueur for the past decade, including trips by Ban Ki-moon and Kofi Annan. On Oct. 2, however, Israel Katz, the Israeli foreign …
- Evelyn Leopold
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Against the backdrop of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and its officially sanctioned extremist settler recolonization assault in the occupied West Bank, the alarming escalation between Hizbullah and Israel over the last several weeks threatens to dramatically expand the regional …
Renner Onana, an official of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic, was promoted to a high-level position in the organization in May. But years ago, he was accused of complacency in a sexual abuse case involving …
- Damilola Banjo
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Welcome to This Week @UN: Human rights in Africa; a woman UN boss; EU migration failure; Summit of the Future. Plus: Misinfo/disinfo; Gaza; West Bank; Mali; Afghanistan. Follow us on Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn • Our #1 story …
- Arthur Bassas
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